Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 75
Many months had come and gone since the day when the unfortunate and broken-hearted Sun-Yen had seen his daughter pass away to certain death.
Who acts: Many months, unfortunate Sun Yen, daughter · What happens: come, go, see, pass away · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many months, unfortunate Sun Yen, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 months | amod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gone | cc |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 come | conj |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Yen | det |
| 12 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Yen | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hearted | cc |
| 14 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hearted | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 broken | punct |
| 16 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 unfortunate | conj |
| 17 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Yen | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sun | punct |
| 19 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 gone | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obj |
| 24 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seen | xcomp |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 pass | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 27 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 death | amod |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pass | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Many months | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | participle | Many months not said here | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | the unfortunate Sun Yen | Korea's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass away | infinitive | Korea's daughter not said here | to certain death; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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